A researcher works on a vaccine against the new coronavirus COVID-19 at the Copenhagen s University research lab in Copenhagen, Denmark, on March 23, 2020. | AFP via Getty Images/Thibault Savary
Emily Smith is an epidemiologist at Baylor University, the wife of a Baptist pastor, and a mother. She has been working hard to help her fellow evangelicals understand the urgency of getting vaccinated against COVID-19.
Though she has received vociferous criticism and even death threats, she is committed to her calling: âI just feel such a sense of obligation, especially from a Christian perspective, to be the Good Samaritan, and hopefully get people to band together and still wear their mask and get a vaccine.â